CUTE80. IIIT5K-Words [1]} presents randomly picked 3000 cropped word images. Street View Text [2]} contains 647 images, mostly being blurred, noisy or having low resolution. SVT-Perspective [3]} offers 645 samples from side-view angle snapshots having perspective distortion. ICDAR2013 [4]} presents 1015 words while ICDAR2015 [5]} has 2077 images, 200 of which are irregular. CUTE80 [6]} distinguishes itself by presenting 288 cropped high quality curved text images. Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) and Scene-Text Recognition (STR) both share a common objective in terms of recognition, which is usually handled by similar network architecture. Hence, we validate our results on two different public HTR datasets. The evaluation setup described in [7]} is employed on two large standard datasets viz,
